CIG Institutional Member Data

CIG Institutional Members

Institution Name: Argonne National Laboratory
Department/Division: MCS
Department/Division Official: Bill Gropp
Title of Approving Official: Associate Director
Institution Type: Govt
Proposed Member Representative: Matthew Knepley, ANL
Address: 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439
Phone: 630-252-1870
Fax: 630-252-5986
Email: knepley@mcs.anl.gov
Comments: I hope to introduce new solver and discretization technology.

Institution: Boston University
Department: Department of Earth Sciences
Approving Official: Guido Salvucci (Dept. Chair)
Institution Type: US Educational
Representative Name: Paul Hall
Email: phall@bu.edu
Address: 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Country: USA
Phone: 617.353.9678
Fax: 617.353.3290
Interests: My own research focuses on convection in the upper mantle and I have recently begun using CitcomCU (running on large clusters at BU's Scientific Computing and Visualization Center) for 3D modeling. My immediate interest in CIG is simply as a user of CIG supported software, but I hope to contribute both professionally and in terms of code development in the future.

Institution Name: California Institute of Technology
Department/Division: Geological and Planetary Science
Department/Division Official: Edward M. Stolper
Title of Approving Official: Division Chairman
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Jeroen Tromp, Seismological Laboratory
Address: Caltech MC 252-21 1200 East California Blvd. Pasadena 91125
Phone: 626-395-8117
Fax: 626-564-0715
Email: jtromp@gps.caltech.edu
Comments: At least five faculty members within our Division as well as their students and post-docs have a strong interest in participating in CIG and using the open source software which will result from this initiative.

Institution: California State University, Northridge
Department: Geological Sciences
Approving Official: Vicki Pedone
Institution Type: US Educational
Representative Name: Dayanthie S. Weeraratne
Email: dsw@csun.edu
Address: 18111 Nordhoff St, Live Oak Hall, Rm#1202,Geological Sciences, Northridge, California, 91330-8266
Country: USA
Phone: 818-677-2046
Fax: 818-677-2820

Institution Name: Colorado State University
Department/Division: Department of Geosciences
Department/Division Official: Frank Etheridge
Title of Approving Official: Interim Department Head
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Dennis Harry, Colorado State University
Address: Department of Geosciences Mail Stop 1482 Fort Collins, CO 80523
Phone: (970) 491-2714
Fax: (970) 491-6307
Email: dharry@cnr.colostate.edu
Comments: Computational geodynamics is central to CSU s research and teaching activities in lithosphere scale processes, particularly those involved in orogenesis and continental breakup. Faculty at CSU are heavily involved in developing computer codes for simulating lithosphere-scale geodynamic processes, and are committed to sharing our codes and integrating them with codes developed by other researchers. CIG provides the forum for such interactions.

Institution Name: Columbia University
Department/Division: LDEO/DEES/DAPAM
Department/Division Official: Mike Purdy/Bill Menke/Michael Mauel
Title of Approving Official: Director/Dept. Chair/Dept Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Marc Spiegelman, LDEO/DEES/DAPAM
Address: Rt 9W Palisades NY, 10964
Phone: 845 365 8425
Fax: 845 365 8150
Email: mspieg@ldeo.columbia.edu
Comments: We intend to be heavily involved in the magma dynamics and geochemical transport components of CIG as well as overall issues

Institution Name: Harvard University
Department/Division: Earth and Space Sciences
Department/Division Official: Jeremy Bloxham
Title of Approving Official: Department Chair and Professor
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Jeremy Bloxham, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Address: 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495-9517
Fax: (617) 495-8839
Email: jeremy_bloxham@harvard.edu
Comments:

Institution: Indiana University
Department: Digital Science Center
Approving Official: Geoffrey Fox (Director)
Institution Type: US Educational
Representative Name: Geoffrey Fox
Email: gcf@indiana.edu
Address: Pervasive Technology Institute, 2719 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47408
Country: USA
Phone: 8122194643
Fax: 8128567972
Interests: Development of Cyberinfrastructure for Geoscience exploiting cloud and multicore technology

Institution Name: Johns Hopkins University
Department/Division: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Department/Division Official: Peter Olson
Title of Approving Official: Department Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Peter Olson, Johns Hopkins
Address: Earth & Planetary Sciences 301 Olin Building Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles St Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-516-7707
Fax: 410-516-7933
Email: olson@jhu.edu
Comments: I am interested in advancing the state of computations in geodynamics and geomagnetism.

Institution Name: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Department/Division: Earth and Environmental Sciences Division
Department/Division Official: Terry Wallace
Title of Approving Official: Division Leader
Institution Type: Other
Proposed Member Representative: Carl Gable, Hydrology, Geochemistry & Geology Group (EES-6)
Address: EES-6, MS T003 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos NM 87545
Phone: 505-665-3533
Fax: 505-665-8737
Email: gable@lanl.gov
Comments: Los Alamos and the Earth and Environmental Sciences division has a long standing interest and role in computational geodynamics. We wish to remain engaged in the next generation of computational geodynamics and we believe membership in CIG is part of that.

Institution Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department/Division: Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Name of Approving Official: Maria T. Zuber
Title of Approving Official: Department Head
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Bradford Hager, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Address: 54-622 MIT Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617 253-0126
Fax: 617 253-1699
Email: bhhager@mit.edu
Comments: MIT has a strong interest in computational geosciences and is one of the lead institutions in ESMF. EAPS interests in computational geodynamics span the fields of convection in the mantles of terrestrial planets, crustal deformation, and structural seismology. Hager is a leader of the SCEC Fault Systems modeling group and chair of the review committee of the NASA-sponsored QuakeSIMM project.

Institution Name: Oregon State University
Department/Division: College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Department/Division Official: Mark Abbott
Title of Approving Official: Dean, Professor
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Gary D. Egbert, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Address: Ocean Admin Bldg 104 Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-5503
Phone: 541-737-2947
Fax: 541-737-2064
Email: egbert@coas.oregonstate.edu
Comments: My personal interest in CIG is in the area of data assimilation in geodynamic models. I have been working in recent years on data assimilation methods in oceanography, including development of algorithms and applications to global ocean tides, ocean mixing, and coastal oceanography. Most recently I am involved in efforts to develop a modular ocean inverse modeling system. My background is in solid Earth geophysics in geomagnetism and electromagnetic induction, and I am now starting to work on applications of assimilation methods to solid Earth problems. I am also currently involved in development of a modular modeling and inversion system for electromagnetic induction data, and I am actively interested in rationalizing software development in the Earth sciences. The College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) includes a large and active group of scientists working in marine geology and geophysics, including geodynamic studies of ocean basins (especially ridges and subduction zones) and continents. A number of scientists in COAS would benefit from the proposed development of community resources for quantitative geodynamic studies.

Institution Name: Pennsylvania State University
Department/Division: Geosciences
Department/Division Official: Tim Bralower
Title of Approving Official: Department Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Kevin Furlong, Geodynamics Research Group, Geosciences, Penn State Univ
Address: 542 Deike Building University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814 863 0567
Fax: 814 865 2023
Email: kevin@geodyn.psu.edu
Comments: Primary focus on lithospheric geodynamics. Application of 2D and 3D numerical modeling to plate boundary processes. Interest in coupled thermal-deformational modeling tools.

Institution Name: Princeton University
Department/Division: Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program
Department/Division Official: George Philander
Title of Approving Official: Director, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Venkatramani Balaji, Princeton University
Address: PO Box 308 GFDL Princeton University Princeton NJ 08542
Phone: +1-609-452-6516
Fax: +1-609-987-5063
Email: v.balaji@noaa.gov
Comments: I am technical lead on related infrastructures: the GFDL Flexible Modeling System (http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/fms) and the Earth System Modeling Framework (http://www.esmf.ucar.edu).

Institution Name: Purdue University
Department/Division: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Department/Division Official: Harshvardhan
Title of Approving Official: Head of Department
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Scott King, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Address: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University 550 Stadium Mall Dr. West Lafayette IN 47907-2051
Phone: 765-494-3696
Fax: 765-496-1210
Email: sking@purdue.edu
Comments: Scott King has been developing software for computational mantle dynamics since graduate school. His current interests are in improving the equation of state model in spherical convection models and working on rheology and plate-mantle dynamics. He has worked on interfacing finite element codes with state of the art equation solving tools. He will work as a liason with other computational and geophysics researchers at Purdue.

Institution Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department/Division: Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Department/Division Official: Frank S. Spear
Title of Approving Official: Department Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Charles Williams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Address: Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences Science Center, 2C01B Troy, NY 12180
Phone: (518) 276-3369
Fax: (518) 276-2012
Email: willic3@rpi.edu
Comments: Our department has an interest in many of the software tools that we anticipate CIG will provide. Our interests include (but are not limited to) quasi-static modeling tools, seismic wave propagation codes, visualization tools, inversion tools, and meshing packages.

Institution Name: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Department/Division: Geosciences
Department/Division Official: Teng-fong Wong
Title of Approving Official: Chair of Department of Geosciences
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Lianxing Wen, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Address: Department of Geosciences State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794
Phone: 631-632-1726
Fax: 631-632-8240
Email: Lianxing.Wen@sunysb.edu
Comments: The Department of Geosciences, SUNY at Stony Brook is actively developing advanced computational codes for studying three-dimensional mantle flow with radially and laterally varying rheology, continental deformation, the coupling between large-scale mantle flow and continental defomation, and two- and three-dimensional numerical wave propagation. We have a strong interest in both contributing the existent codes, such as 2D SH and PSV hybrid methods for simulating wave propagation, the spectral codes for calculating 3D mantle flow with laterally varying rheology, and the codes for studying the continental dynamics, and working with CIG to develop new codes in the future.

Institution Name: U.S. Geological Survey
Department/Division: Earthquake Hazards Team
Department/Division Official: William Ellsworth
Title of Approving Official: Team Chief
Institution Type: Govt
Proposed Member Representative: Brad Aagaard, U.S. Geological Survey
Address: USGS MS977 345 Middlefield Rd. Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: 650-329-4789
Fax: none
Email: baagaard@usgs.gov
Comments: Within the USGS Earthquake Hazards team, we have several projects underway that require computationally intensive numerical models. We would like to aid in the effort to empower scientists with the tools necessary to make significant advancements in modeling geophysical processes, especially those that affect the seismic hazard analyses.

Institution Name: University of California, Berkeley
Department/Division: Earth and Planetary Science
Department/Division Official: Barbara Romanowicz
Title of Approving Official: Chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Mark Richards, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science
Address: 307 McCone Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: 510-642-8560
Fax: 510-643-9980
Email: markr@seismo.berkeley.edu
Comments: UC Berkeley has participated in the development of CIG since its inception. We have a number of faculty active in geodnamic modeling, and expect to partipate vigorously in the development of new codes within the CIG framework.

Institution Name: University of California, Davis
Department/Division: Geology Department
Department/Division Official: Louise Kellogg
Title of Approving Official: Professor and Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Louise Kellogg, UC Davis
Address: Geology Department 1 Shields Avenue University of California Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-752-3690
Fax: 530-752-0951
Email: kellogg@geology.ucdavis.edu
Comments: Mantle and crustal dynamics, scientific visualization

Institution Name: University of California, Los Angeles
Department/Division: Earth and Space Sciences
Department/Division Official: Gerald Schubert
Title of Approving Official: Department Chair and Professor
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Paul Tackley, UCLA Dept. Earth and Space Sciences
Address: 595 Charles Young Drive East Los Angeles CA 90095-1567
Phone: 310 2069180
Fax: 310 8252779
Email: ptackley@ucla.edu
Comments: high

Institution Name: University of California, San Diego
Department/Division: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Department/Division Official: Robert Parker
Title of Approving Official: Director of IGPP
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Yuri Fialko, IGPP/SIO/UCSD
Address: IGPP-0225 UCSD La Jolla, CA 92093
Phone: 858-822-5028
Fax: 858-534-5332
Email: fialko@radar.ucsd.edu
Comments: Several research groups at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCSD are doing fundamental research that involves large-scale numerical computations, including the global and regional seismology, space geodesy, geomagnetism, crustal deformation, geodynamics, and inverse theory. These research groups may substantially benefit from, and contribute to the goals and resources of CIG.

Institution Name: University of Colorado
Department/Division: Physics/Geophysics
Department/Division Official: John Cumalat
Title of Approving Official: Department Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado
Address: Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 720-304-8727
Fax: 303-492-7935
Email: szhong@anquetil.colorado.edu
Comments: We want to contribute to this exciting effort by our community to lift our computational geophysics research to a new level.

Institution Name: University of Maine
Department/Division: Earth Sciences
Department/Division Official: Prof. Daniel Belknap
Title of Approving Official: Deartment Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Peter Koons, University of Maine
Address: Department of Earth Sciences Bryand Global Sciences Center Orono Maine 04669
Phone: 207 581 2158
Fax: 207 581 2202
Email: peter.koons@maine.edu
Comments: Our interests in CIG are primarily in 3D modeling of crustal dynamics and crust-mantle interactions. Thes include investigations of coupling among atmospheric and tectonic processes at a broad range of temporal and spatial scales.

Institution Name: University of Michigan
Department/Division: Geological Sciences
Department/Division Official: Joel Blum
Title of Approving Official: Dept. Chair and Professor
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Todd Ehlers, University of Michigan - Geological Sciences
Address: 2534 C.C. Little 425 E. University Ann Arbor Michigan, 48109-1063
Phone: 734 763 5112
Fax: 734 763 4690
Email: tehlers@umich.edu
Comments: Our department has 3 faculty who simulate lithosphere and mantle geodynamic processes (Peter van Keken, Carolina Lithogow-Bertelloni, Todd Ehlers). We anticipate that we will be contributors and users of software developed by the CIG.

Institution Name: University of Minnesota
Department/Division: Geology and Geophysics
Department/Division Official: William Seyfried
Title of Approving Official: Chairman of Horace Winchell School of Earth Scie
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: David Yuen, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
Address: 310 Pillsbury Dr. SE
Phone: 612 6249801
Fax: 612 6253819
Email: davey@krissy.geo.umn.edu
Comments: The University of Minnesota in the last 20 years has been involved in egodynamical modeling.

Institution Name: University of Missouri-Columbia
Department/Division: Dept. of Geological Sciences
Department/Division Official: Glen Himmelberg
Title of Approving Official: Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Mian Liu, Univ. of Missouri
Address: 101 Geology Building Dept. of Geological Sciences University of Missouri Columbia,MO 65211
Phone: 573-882-3784
Fax: 573-882-5458
Email: lium@missouri.edu
Comments: The geodynamics group at UMC is actively engaged in modeling of lithospheric deformation. Liu is leading GEON's effort in geodynamic computation.

Institution Name: University of Southern California
Department/Division: Department of Earth Sciences
Department/Division Official: Department Chair
Title of Approving Official: Thomas Henyey
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Thorsten Becker
Address: Department of Earth Sciences, ZHS 269 University of Southern California 3651 Trousdale Pkwy. 3651 Trousdale Pkwy.
Phone: 213.740.8365
Fax: 213.740.8801
Email: twb@usc.edu
Comments:

Institution Name: Univeristy of Texas at Austin
Department/Division: Institute for Geophysics
Department/Division Official: Paul Stoffa
Title of Approving Official: Director
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Luc Lavier, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Address: 4412 Spicewood Springs Rd., Bld. 600 Austin, TX 78759-8500
Phone: 512 471 0455
Fax: 512 471 8844
Email: luc@ig.utexas.edu
Comments: UTIG is involved in the development and the use of numerical techniques to apply to problems of Geodynamics and Seismology. Collaborations already in place with the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin could provide important imputs in the development and for the future evolution of the CIG.

Institution Name: University of Washington
Department/Division: Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Department/Division Official: Michael Brown
Title of Approving Official: Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Sean Willett, University of Washington
Address: Dept of Earth and Space Sciences University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 206 5438653
Fax:
Email: swillett@u.washington.edu
Comments: We are interested in devolpment and application of crustal and lithospheric deformation models, surface process models and computational seismology.

Institution Name: Washington University
Department/Division: Earth and Planetary Sciences Name of Approving Official: Raymond Arvidson
Title of Approving Official: Deaprtment Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Michael Wysession, Washington University
Address: Dept. E&PS, Campus Box 1169 Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130
Phone: (314) 935-5625
Fax: (314) 935-7361
Email: michael@wucore.wustl.edu
Comments: I am interested in CIG providing a means of helping seismological research through the development of a framework that will allow for more efficient and advanced means of analyzing and modeling seismic data.

Institution Name: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Department/Division: Department of Geology and Geophysics
Department/Division Official: Robert S. Detrick, Jr
Title of Approving Official: Department Chair
Institution Type: Education
Proposed Member Representative: Laurent Montesi, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Address: Laurent Montesi WHOI, MS24 Woods Hole MA 02543
Phone: 508-289-3708
Fax: 508-457-2150
Email: montesi@whoi.edu
Comments: WHOI has been active in geodynamics research, mainly through sea-going activities but also increasingly through geodynamics modeling. Modern scientific goals in geodynamics can be tackled only through a combination of powerful computing facilities and advanced numerical techniques that are rarely well understood by Earth scientists. CIG will permit software advances to be included in the toolbox of geodynamics modelers, thus rendering an immense service to our community.

Foreign Affiliates

Institution Name: Australian National University
Department/Division: Research School of Earth Sciences Name of Approving Official: Professor Mark Harrison
Title of Approving Official: Director
Institution Type: Foreign Proposed Member Representative: Jean Braun, Australian National University
Address: Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
Phone: +61-2-6125-5512
Fax: +61-2-6257-2737
Email: Jean.Braun@anu.edu.au
Comments: We have been developing and using geodynamic models for the past 20 years. We are currently developing a 3D model for the deformation of the lithosphere, flow in the mantle and interactions with the overlying hydrosphere through erosional processes, in collaboration with Chris Beaumont of Dalhousie University, Canada.

Institution Name: Monash University
Department/Division: School of Geosciences, Science Faculty
Department/Division Official: Prof Jim Cull
Title of Approving Official: Head of School of Geosciences
Institution Type: Foreign
Proposed Member Representative: Louis Moresi, Monash Cluster Computing and Schools of Geosciences & Mathematics School of Mathematical Sciences
Address: Building 28 (Mathematics) Monash University Clayton 3800 Victoria Australia
Phone: +61 3 9905 4468
Fax: +61 3 9905 4403
Email: louis.moresi@sci.monash.edu
Comments: Monash Cluster Computing (MC2) is a scientific high-performance computing group spanning the faculties of Science and Information Technology. One of the key research areas of MC2 is computational geodynamics. We are deeply involved in the construction of geodynamic modeling software in partnership with VPAC and with the University of Sydney, and have a key role in the Australian Computational Earth System Simulation initiative (which has many similar goals to CIG). We anticipate that a strong partnership between CIG and international groupings with related interests will generate suites of software which can readily interact with each other. With foresight and some amount of luck, the major obstacles to widespread use of modeling software can be significantly reduced. MC2 can provide expertise in development and efficient implementation of modeling algorithms and in the generalization / abstraction of specific algorithms for implementation in multiphysics software frameworks.

Institution Name: University of Sydney
Department/Division: Univ. of Sydney Inst. of Marine Science (USIMS)
Department/Division Official: A/Prof. R. Dietmar Muller
Title of Approving Official: Director, USIMS
Institution Type: Foreign
Proposed Member Representative: Dietmar Muller, University of Sydney
Address: Univ. of Sydney Inst. of Marine Science Edgeworth David Building F05 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: 61 2 9351 4254
Fax: 61 2 9341 0184
Email: dietmar@geosci.usyd.edu.au
Comments: I am convener of the Australian Earth and Ocean Network (www.aeon.org.au) whose main aims is to link observational data to computational data analysis/modeling tools in Earth and ocean science in Australia (i.e., linking a data grid to a computing grid). I am also coordinating the GPlates initiative (www.gplates.org) whose goal it is to develop community plate reconstruction software linked to both data bases and geodynamic modeling tools. Both GPlates and AEON could potentially make substantial contributions to the CIG community, and by the same token the AEON/GPlates communities would benefit from access to CIG computing tools.

Institution: University of Tuebingen, Germany
Department: Institute for Geosciences
Approving Official: Todd Ehlers, Chair for Geology and Geodynamics
Institution Type: Foreign Educational
Representative Name: Todd Ehlers
Email = todd.ehlers@uni-tuebingen.de
Address: Wilhelmstrasse 56, 72074, Tuebingen
Country: Germany
Phone: +49 7071 29 7 31 52
Fax: +49 7071 29 3060
Interests: The University of Tuebingen (Germany) Institute for Geosciences is interested in the quantification of interactions between climate, tectonics, and landscape evolution. Research groups at this University are actively using and modifying the GALE software for the simulation of atmosphere-lithosphere interactions, as well as for glacier dynamics. The institute hereby requests membership as a foreign affiliate to formalize their involvement in CIG.

Institution Name: Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
Department/Division: none
Department/Division Official: Bill Appelbe
Title of Approving Official: Director and CEO
Institution Type: Foreign
Proposed Member Representative: Bill Appelbe, VPAC
Address: 110 Victoria Street Carlton South Vic 3053 Australia
Phone: +61 3 9925 4645
Fax: +61 3 9925 4647
Email: bill@vpac.org
Comments: VPAC has been engaged in the development of geodynamics software since 2000. VPAC and its Member Universities employ about a half-dozen people in this effort at present, funded largely from Australian Commonwealth research grants and state matching support. VPAC would like directly collaborate with CIG. The collaborative activities funded could include:

• Long-term staff exchanges
• Joint software development on new projects
• Joint sponsorship of workshops and development of documentation and training material
• Advice and support on software development methods and tools